CTV had obtained the rights to broadcast the conference.
Now that Academician Lu won another prize at ICM, the CTV obviously wouldn't miss this excellent promotional opportunity.
Even though it wasn't a Fields Medal, it was still an ICM award, the highest level of honor, recognized by the entire mathematics community.
Why wouldn't they share this exciting moment with the country?
The reporter nearly wrote that the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize was more impressive than the Fields Medal.
But strictly speaking, Carl Friedrich Gauss achieved ten times more than John Charles Fields, not to mention that the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize was the first award to be given.
So if you put it that way…
Maybe one could argue that the Carl Friedrich Gauss prize was more impressive?
However, even though the CTV tried to promote this award ceremony, it didn't receive a huge response.
There was only one reason.
